Getting Information Home

My Scout Group is of an average size with around 70 – 80 Beavers, Cubs and Scouts at the moment and we’ve been finding getting information back to the parents can be trying at times!

The traditional way is to send letters home with the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts for their parents. However this can be very hit and miss. The letters always get home when it’s about a camp etc, but seem to be a little less reliable when it come to comes to more ‘boring’ subjects such as Church Services and money!

We have our website with a calendar for forthcoming events (as long as the Leaders remember to tell me!), but that doesn’t seem to be used too often by members of the Group or parents, so this weekend I’ve done a few things to try to help communication.

I’ve written a newsletter which will be given out when everyone returns from the Easter holidays next week. This is the traditional method and as it’s newsletter with lots of different information on there is a very good chance it will get home.

The other thing I’ve done and is more ‘modern’ is set up a group page on Facebook for the Scout Group (search for ‘porthill’ and look at the groups section and you can’t miss us!) and a Twitter feed for the Group.

Whether or not this will help us to communicate with everyone, I do not know, but it’s got to be worth a try.